Markets Trading Hours.

The best times to trade

One of the advantages of forex trading is the ability to trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. That’s because the markets open on Monday 07:00 Sydney time and close on Friday 17:00 New York time. However, just because trading hours allow you to enter the markets all the time, doesn’t mean you necessarily should! The below graphic shows market opening hours and ‘overlaps’ which present some of the best trading times. This is usually when the highest volume of trades happen creating more liquidity and more opportunities.

Trading hours

All time GMT unless otherwise stated.

Daylight Savings Time (DST) is generally applicable in autumn and spring; however it is not equally applicable to all instruments. There will be instruments that apply DST to USA times, with the EU or APAC times, while others may not apply DST at all. We update our trading times in the table below to reflect these changes as accurately as possible.

The table below lists the trading hours per instrument so you know when orders must be settled and find trading opportunities according to when a market opens or closes.

Holiday Schedule - The day following National Day2 October 2017 - Times GMT

Product

Close

Re-Open

Indices

Hong Kong 40

HSX

15:30

Friday 29/09

01:15

Tuesday 03/10

Trading hours2 April to 1 October - Times GMT

Product

Open

Close

Daily Break

Cryptocurrencies* ( Closing of Deals 24/7)

Open

Close

Daily Break

Bitcoin

BTC

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

Currencies

Majors & Minors

21:00

Sunday / MT4 22:00

21:00

Friday

Swiss Franc

CHF

21:00

Sunday / MT4 22:00

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00 (MT4)

Exotic Currencies

Israeli Shekel

ILS

05:30

Weekdays

15:00

Mon-Thu / 11:00 Friday

Chinese Yuan

CNH

00:00

Monday

18:00

Friday

Turkish Lira

TRY

22:00

Sunday / 00:00 Monday (MT4)

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00 (MT4)

Swedish Krona

SEK

22:00

Sunday / 00:00 Monday (MT4)

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00 (MT4)

Norwegian Krone

NOK

22:00

Sunday / 00:00 Monday (MT4)

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00 (MT4)

South African Rand

ZAR

22:00

Sunday / 00:00 Monday (MT4)

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00 (MT4)

Metals

Open

Close

Daily Break

Gold

XAU

22:00

Sunday

20:55

Friday

20:55- 22:00

Silver

XAG

22:00

Sunday

20:55

Friday

20:55- 22:00

Palladium

XPD

22:00

Sunday

20:55

Friday

20:55- 22:00

Platinum

XPT

22:00

Sunday

20:55

Friday

20:55- 22:00

Copper

CPR

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00

Energy Products

Open

Close

Daily Break

WTI Crude

OIL

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00

Brent Oil

BRT

00:00

Weekdays

21:00

Weekdays

Heating Oil

HEO

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00

Gas Oil

GAS

00:00

Weekdays

21:00

Weekdays

Natural Gas

NGS

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00

Commodities

Open

Close

Daily Break

Wheat

WHT

00:00

Weekdays

18:10

Weekdays

12:40 - 13:30

Corn

CRN

00:00

Weekdays

18:10

Weekdays

12:40 - 13:30

Soybeans

SOY

00:00

Weekdays

18:10

Weekdays

12:40 - 13:30

Cotton

CTN

01:00

Weekdays

18:15

Weekdays

Coffee

CFE

08:15

Weekdays

17:25

Weekdays

Sugar

SGR

07:30

Weekdays

16:55

Weekdays

Cocoa

CCO

08:45

Weekdays

17:25

Weekdays

Indices

Open

Close

Daily Break

US 500

SPI

22:00

Sunday

20:15

Friday

20:15 - 22:00

US 30

DOW

22:00

Sunday

20:15

Friday

20:15 - 22:00

US Tech

NDQ

22:00

Sunday

20:15

Friday

20:15 - 22:00

UK 100

FTS

07:00

Weekdays

20:00

Weekdays

Germany 30

DAX

06:00

Weekdays

20:00

Weekdays

EU Stocks 50

ESX

06:00

Weekdays

19:55

Weekdays

France 40

CAC

06:00

Weekdays

20:00

Weekdays

Swiss 20

SWI

06:00

Weekdays

20:00

Weekdays

Australia

ASX

23:50

Sunday

21:00

Weekdays

06:30 - 07:10 and 21:00 - 23:50

Japan 225

NKI

22:00

Sunday

21:00

Friday

21:00 - 22:00

Hong Kong 40

HSX

01:15

Weekdays

15:30

Weekdays

04:00 - 05:00 and 08:30 - 09:15

China 50

CNX

01:00

Weekdays

18:00

Mon-Thu/ 07:55 Friday

07:55 - 09:05

India 50

IND

01:00

Weekdays

18:00

Mon-Thu/ 10:10 Friday

10:10 - 11:15

USD Index

USX

22:00

Sunday / 00:00 Tuesday-Friday

20:55

Weekdays

Fear

VXX

07:00

Weekdays

20:00

Weekdays

Commodities & Indices Expiry

Commodities and indices are traded as CFDs with easyMarkets and expire at 12:00 GMT. Please note, OIL expiration time is 15:00 GMT.

Vanilla Options Expiry

Can be set to expire up to six months from initiation date. On any given day, options that expire do so at 10:00 New York Time.

CFD and Option deal Expiry

The expiration of each CFD and Option deal is displayed in your trade ticket, open positions and on MT4 Market Watch.

Trading out of hours

Trading hours may change due to several factors such as unusual market conditions which affect liquidity, or circumstances out of our control. On such events spreads may become wider.

Czech Koruna

Czech Koruna (CZK) is normally at its most liquid between 07:00 GMT and 15:00 GMT, Monday to Friday. Trading outside of these hours could involve a wider spread.

Trading Hours Updates

We aim to update our trading times as necessary to reflect these changes, please contact us for up-to-date information.

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